The WORST of Netflix?

[Boxerfan]

I know I'm late to the party . Seems it is now quantity over quality.

I tried to watch Cosmic Sin last night. Bruce Willis, space-how can they screw that up.


Oh but they did. So bad I didn't make 20 minutes. Cringe worthy dialogue & it turned into a zombie movie like we need more of that.

Your favorite worst?


Or-

What to avoid on Netflix.

[underpants]

1. Not sure if Netflix but Lost in Space season 3 👎

The episodes took FOREVER to get through. Not enough Dr. Smith (Parker Posey) either.

[ruet]

3. I Fell Asleep During The Finale and didn't bother to rewind.

Just a boring arse season and the redemption of Dr. Smith was .

[alittlelark]

4. I'll 2nd that one - Gawd Awful

[csziggy]

2. Top review of it on IMDB.com

Top review
3/10
It was simply awful
Bruce Willis stopped telegraphing his acting for this film. He just didn't act at all. I mean, it looked like he was between high and mentally disabled. I worry about the dude. Then Frank Grillo, happenstance makes that I have seen three of his films this week, I was just saying how I wish he would get a break. Not for this film! Note that he is billed first, above Willis, and his role is at most 15 minutes from the film anyway.

But what makes this film shine like a black hole is the story. It felt more than devoid of passion, like a spreadsheet that sucks one's soul away in the accounting department on a hot day after the air conditioning died. I mean, if a kid would have written it, it at least would have been fun. If someone was incompetent it would have felt like trying to send some kind of message, however badly. But no, it ... just made no sense, like someone hated writing for this film.

Bottom line: it is so bad you can't even enjoy it wasted. It's a non-movie. It's like what's on the other side of the event horizon of TV static.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11762434/

[Submariner]

6. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 3% on the Tomatometer

The reviews are funny stuff:

- To suggest that Bruce Willis is phoning in his performance in Cosmic Sin would be an insult to telephone communication, which can be an effective means of conveying important information and genuine emotion.

- This brain-dead space opera stars Willis as a fading star who refuses to do second takes or give a fart.

- The funniest (sad) thing about the film is that it's set in 2521 and onward, yet folks are driving 1980s Ford pickups and listening to 1990s alterno-rock.

- Cosmic Sin is an excruciating watch, top to bottom, featuring an absolute mess of camera work, scenes where actors don't interact with one another, and bottom barrel sci-fi leftovers.

I always check Rotten Tomatoes before venturing into the streaming world

[Boxerfan]

10. Yeah the props were just so out of era.

There was a brand new chopper style bike parked way out in a deserted lot-used it as a anchor for the shot multiple times. It would have been in a museum by then as a flying tank goes by.

I did search the reviews after the fact. I need to reverse the process I guess.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. Why does a 66 year old man worth $250 Million

make such shit? He doesn't need the money. He has apparently made other shitty movies with this terrible writer/director, Edward Drake, and has another in the can. I looked at his filmography and he started making several straight to video films a year. Of course, those are most always junk.

[we can do it]

5. Marcella....Absolute worst series ever. Don't waste minute on it.

The longer it goes on the worse it gets.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

7. Disagree...

watched it all before it was on Netflix. Thought it was fascinating and riveting.
7.4 on IMDB.


Different strokes.

[OAITW r.2.0]

8. I liked it, too. nt

[we can do it]

11. Third season was beyond idiotic and unbelievable.

And how much time was water with the weird fog music.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

13. Maybe because...

I watched them one season at a time when they were first released it made more sense. I've noticed that I find flaws easier in shows I only binge watch.

[Ocelot II]

15. I liked the series until the third season. It stopped making sense then.

[Pinback]

9. Bordertown (updated)

Last edited Mon Dec 20, 2021, 11:38 PM - Edit history (1)

First episode introduces a story line involving brutal misogynistic murder. No thanks. Didn’t even finish the first episode. I know many disagree. This is a popular series. Many reviewers found it “edgy.”

I don’t mind stories that include violence and evil — kind of hard to avoid in a murder mystery. But this is in a different headspace, very disturbing with way too much lovingly depicted detail.

On edit -- This reviewer ("Charlotte," posting on netflicks.tv on Oct. 11, 2020) expresses my viewpoint pretty closely:

Charlotte October 11, 2020, 5:20 am

I agree with other reviewers that Bordertown is an excellently crafted show within the obesely large cliched police crime drama genre with its own version of the flawed but brilliant individualist hero. There is no doubt that it is well-designed to draw you in with enough complexity and variation on this overdone genre to maintain interest (just). HOWEVER, I found the characters and plot lines shockingly misogynist for this day and age. I kept watching the series in part out of a fascination with whether my initial impression panned out, and it has. So be warned.

While on the surface the characters appear to reflect modern gender equality aspirational norms, it doesn’t take long for the plot-lines and voyeuristic sexual violence to reveal a nasty, aggressive anti-women streak. This show is not some hard-hitting realist depiction about domination and violence lurking in the underbelly of Finnish society, which includes violence against women (as the show would have you believe). What makes the show sexist and not conciousness-raising or even neutral is: 1) the way it depicts (young) women being assaulted that allows the viewers to adopt the perspective of the dominators and take voyeuristic pleasure in these scenes (more naked women than men of course); 2) the ridiculous proportion of women who are also violent serial assailants (Midsomer Murders style); and 3) the clear lack of appreciation by the show designers of the trauma that sexual and other kinds of assaults have on people – most of the victims of course being women (another reviewer has already pointed out how remarkable and implausible this is). Moreover, once you recognise this theme of allowing pleasure in women as objects of abuse it then becomes hard not to also notice the inferior roles the female characters play relative to the males in the show – despite a veneer of modernity. Even the tough middle-aged Russian character, Lena, has to be portrayed as a bad, insensitive mother (of course), the female boss is portrayed as bureaucratic, passive and largely useless in relation to detective work whilst deferring to our male hero for solving cases and the wife heroine (read Madonna figure) is of course passive, sickly and largely used as wallpaper to normalise the weirdo hero.

One of the laughably implausible plot-lines is the (nb) ‘flat-chested’, petite, 20-something caring social worker killing all of the primary school classmates who had bullied her at school, one-by-one. Yeah right. Who does that? So as a general technique, the show usually transplants the gendered nature of violence perpetration (whether intimate, acquaintance or strangers) in real life – overwhelmingly male in any country I know – to make it out that women are just as likely, or perhaps even more likely to be perpetrators of serious criminal violence. Now what would be the point of that? That is not realism. It is either plain Midsomer Murders laziness (don’t know how to make reality interesting) or the show designers really truly would like to believe that violence is not gendered and/or has nothing to do with toxic masculine sub-cultures (which we all suffer from, including males) but rather some psychologised BS about some universal deranged behaviour response. Good 'ole psychology of course has a lovely large archive of such tricks. Curious to know what others think.

- source: https://www.nextflicks.tv/review/bordertown/ (scroll down to see comments)

[Ocelot II]

12. I thought it was a really good series. Yes, it was disturbing.

But sex trafficking is supposed to be disturbing. And the main character, an Aspergers-ish detective, is a fascinating study. Great series, IMO. I've been meaning to watch it again.

[LizBeth]

14. It is like they are getting off on it, entertainment rather than disgusted by it.

I have had a couple authors of books, that though I like the story, I could no longer read because it felt like a pleasure or enticement in the actual acts that really turned me off.

[Skittles]

17. I couldn't get past the first 10 minutes of True Story

bad acting, people reacting in ridiculous ways